Research in the School of Education

Some of our staff are members of the 'Centre for Educational Research' (CER) research centre.

The school also has research areas built around the broad themes of:

• politics and policy issues in education
• the role of education in disrupting the socio-cultural, economic and political factors contributing to inequities faced by individuals, families and communities that lead to educational disadvantage, and
• learning, pedagogy and curriculum issues.

Research areas include:

• community engagement programs, alleviating educational disadvantage amongst families of low socio-economic status (SES), Indigenous people, humanitarian refugees, non-English speaking backgrounds
• students from non-heterosexual identities or family backgrounds
• social and economic impact of educational policy and practice
• globalisation, particularly relating to higher education policy
• gender issues in education
• gender and technology
• bullying
• neoliberalism and education
• leadership
• literacy and numeracy
• literacy and equity issues
• constructions of childhood
• transformative pedagogies
• curriculum issues
• affect
• constructions of identities in educational contexts; and
• eating disorders in adolescents.

The school has established strong regional and international networks, with staff recently invited to presented papers in Scandinavia, United States, Japan, China, Malaysia, United Kingdom and Chile.